...and refuses to recognize Honduras' recent democratic elections issuing an ultimatum to restore dictator to power.
Read the article by Michelle Malkin!
michellemalkin.com
Saturday, September 5, 2009
Friday, September 5, 2008
Quote of the Day
Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.
-William F. Buckley, Jr. (1925-2008)
Thursday, September 4, 2008
A Vote For Sarah Palin
To read this article in its entirety visit http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=1161
by Suann Therese Maier
"... I will vote for Sarah Palin because I don’t need the Democratic platform’s belated affirmation of motherhood. Thanks, but I already know that motherhood is good, several times over. Moreover, the party’s rediscovery of motherhood seems rather cynical in the current news cycle, while Democratic-friendly bloggers and media types bash Palin about her daughter’s pregnancy and her own busy schedule while bringing up children. How can a real sympathy for motherhood come from the same people who wrote a platform that hardens the party’s addiction to a phony right to kill the unborn?...
I will vote for Sarah Palin because she has guts. We’ve never met, but I suspect I know something about her life, and so do a great many other women. I know what it means to have a son with Down syndrome. I know what it means to talk a good line about religious faith and then be asked to prove it. I know what it means to have a daughter pregnant and unmarried.
In fact, while we’re on the subject, I also know what it means to have two grandchildren born out of wedlock, a son struggling with alcohol, two grandchildren with serious disabilities, putting myself through graduate school while simultaneously caring for a husband and children and teaching full time—and a whole lot more. This is the stuff of real human love; this is the raw material of family life. And those who think that Palin’s beliefs and family struggles are funny or worth jeering at, simply reveal the venality of their own hearts.
I will vote for Sarah Palin because she is intelligent, tenacious and talented. Nobody made her rise easy, and no one is making it easy now. And—is it only moms who notice this?—unlike Senator Biden, she does seem to act consistently on her beliefs about the sanctity of life, at considerable personal cost.
I will vote for Sarah Palin because she doesn’t come from Washington or New York or Chicago or anywhere else the political and media aristoi like to hang out. In fact, I especially like the idea that the state she governs actually produces something—like some of the oil that powers the hair dryers and klieg lights at MSNBC...
... Finally, I will vote for Sarah Palin, not because I’ve left the Democratic party of my youth and young adulthood, but because that party has left me. In fact, it no longer exists. And no amount of elegant speaking, exciting choreography, and moral alibis will bring it back.
That’s the real tragedy of this election."
by Suann Therese Maier
"... I will vote for Sarah Palin because I don’t need the Democratic platform’s belated affirmation of motherhood. Thanks, but I already know that motherhood is good, several times over. Moreover, the party’s rediscovery of motherhood seems rather cynical in the current news cycle, while Democratic-friendly bloggers and media types bash Palin about her daughter’s pregnancy and her own busy schedule while bringing up children. How can a real sympathy for motherhood come from the same people who wrote a platform that hardens the party’s addiction to a phony right to kill the unborn?...
I will vote for Sarah Palin because she has guts. We’ve never met, but I suspect I know something about her life, and so do a great many other women. I know what it means to have a son with Down syndrome. I know what it means to talk a good line about religious faith and then be asked to prove it. I know what it means to have a daughter pregnant and unmarried.
In fact, while we’re on the subject, I also know what it means to have two grandchildren born out of wedlock, a son struggling with alcohol, two grandchildren with serious disabilities, putting myself through graduate school while simultaneously caring for a husband and children and teaching full time—and a whole lot more. This is the stuff of real human love; this is the raw material of family life. And those who think that Palin’s beliefs and family struggles are funny or worth jeering at, simply reveal the venality of their own hearts.
I will vote for Sarah Palin because she is intelligent, tenacious and talented. Nobody made her rise easy, and no one is making it easy now. And—is it only moms who notice this?—unlike Senator Biden, she does seem to act consistently on her beliefs about the sanctity of life, at considerable personal cost.
I will vote for Sarah Palin because she doesn’t come from Washington or New York or Chicago or anywhere else the political and media aristoi like to hang out. In fact, I especially like the idea that the state she governs actually produces something—like some of the oil that powers the hair dryers and klieg lights at MSNBC...
... Finally, I will vote for Sarah Palin, not because I’ve left the Democratic party of my youth and young adulthood, but because that party has left me. In fact, it no longer exists. And no amount of elegant speaking, exciting choreography, and moral alibis will bring it back.
That’s the real tragedy of this election."
Friday, August 29, 2008
Quote of the Day
I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
The Last Hope from the Last Frontier
America, you have your hope. America, here is your warrior. America, here is your conservative. America here is your Vice President!
Yes, it's the biggest thing to come from our biggest state since oil, it's Alaska's Republican governor, Sarah Palin!!!!!
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Quote of the Day
In the beginning the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
-Douglas Adams
-Douglas Adams
Obama Flubs the Presidential Test
Biden? Was Robert Byrd too trendy?
By Jonah Goldberg
Vice president. Who among us can contain their excitement?
Not me. I can’t wait to hear more from the man for whom brevity is a Rubicon he will not cross. Ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you something about Joe Biden, as Joe Biden himself might say: Joe is the guy who will tell the hard truths, say the unsaid things — literally, not just figuratively — to ensure that he has gone the extra oratory mile in service to this great cause, America, for which he will give not merely his last breaths but an unknowable number of breaths in service of the country he loves, never once tiring or being distracted by the grammatical ballast of the period, the wedge issue of the paragraph break or the thud of his audiences’ heads soporifically smacking the tables in front of them. No, never let it be said that Joe won’t say what needs to be said, not only when it needs to be said but the other times as well, again and again and, ladies and gentlemen, again.
One can only hope the perpetual motion machine that is Biden’s mouth will, like a million monkeys banging on typewriters, eventually stumble on a plausible explanation for why Obama picked Biden, of all people.
It’s a leaden cliche to note that the choice of a running mate is the first “presidential” decision a candidate makes. What, then, does it say that Obama’s first such decision contradicts the alleged promise of his presidency?
In his career-making speech at the 2004 Democratic convention, Obama ridiculed “the pundits” who “like to slice and dice our country into red states and blue states; red states for Republicans, blue states for Democrats.” But when it came time to act “presidential,” Obama passed on several short-list VP candidates from red states — the governors of Virginia, Kansas, and Iowa — in favor of the senator from deep-blue Delaware.
Over the last two years, Obama’s campaign has gone further, investing a great deal in this idea of Obama as a post-partisan candidate who transcends all of these silly categories. Quoting the candidate, the official Republicans for Obama Web site proclaims: “For the first time in a long time, we have the chance to build a new majority of not just Democrats, but Independents and Republicans who’ve lost faith in their Washington leaders but want to believe again — who desperately want something new.”
And to feed that bottomless yearning for the new, Obama picked a Democrat who was first elected to the U.S. Senate when Obama was 11 years old and Richard Nixon was still popular. When Biden — already a seasoned pol — first ran for president, Duran Duran was still thought of as the cutting edge of music. What happened? Was Robert Byrd too trendy?
And what about all that jibber-jabber about post-partisanship? When Obama, the most liberal member of the U.S. Senate, according to the 2007 vote scoring done by National Journal, picks the third-most-liberal senator, does that count as reaching across the aisle?
to continue reading this article go to
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZmY5MWIzNGIzNjRiNjlkYjlhMzI1OWY0OWRiOGFlMWI=&w=MQ==
By Jonah Goldberg
Vice president. Who among us can contain their excitement?
Not me. I can’t wait to hear more from the man for whom brevity is a Rubicon he will not cross. Ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you something about Joe Biden, as Joe Biden himself might say: Joe is the guy who will tell the hard truths, say the unsaid things — literally, not just figuratively — to ensure that he has gone the extra oratory mile in service to this great cause, America, for which he will give not merely his last breaths but an unknowable number of breaths in service of the country he loves, never once tiring or being distracted by the grammatical ballast of the period, the wedge issue of the paragraph break or the thud of his audiences’ heads soporifically smacking the tables in front of them. No, never let it be said that Joe won’t say what needs to be said, not only when it needs to be said but the other times as well, again and again and, ladies and gentlemen, again.
One can only hope the perpetual motion machine that is Biden’s mouth will, like a million monkeys banging on typewriters, eventually stumble on a plausible explanation for why Obama picked Biden, of all people.
It’s a leaden cliche to note that the choice of a running mate is the first “presidential” decision a candidate makes. What, then, does it say that Obama’s first such decision contradicts the alleged promise of his presidency?
In his career-making speech at the 2004 Democratic convention, Obama ridiculed “the pundits” who “like to slice and dice our country into red states and blue states; red states for Republicans, blue states for Democrats.” But when it came time to act “presidential,” Obama passed on several short-list VP candidates from red states — the governors of Virginia, Kansas, and Iowa — in favor of the senator from deep-blue Delaware.
Over the last two years, Obama’s campaign has gone further, investing a great deal in this idea of Obama as a post-partisan candidate who transcends all of these silly categories. Quoting the candidate, the official Republicans for Obama Web site proclaims: “For the first time in a long time, we have the chance to build a new majority of not just Democrats, but Independents and Republicans who’ve lost faith in their Washington leaders but want to believe again — who desperately want something new.”
And to feed that bottomless yearning for the new, Obama picked a Democrat who was first elected to the U.S. Senate when Obama was 11 years old and Richard Nixon was still popular. When Biden — already a seasoned pol — first ran for president, Duran Duran was still thought of as the cutting edge of music. What happened? Was Robert Byrd too trendy?
And what about all that jibber-jabber about post-partisanship? When Obama, the most liberal member of the U.S. Senate, according to the 2007 vote scoring done by National Journal, picks the third-most-liberal senator, does that count as reaching across the aisle?
to continue reading this article go to
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZmY5MWIzNGIzNjRiNjlkYjlhMzI1OWY0OWRiOGFlMWI=&w=MQ==
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